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I Am the People, the Mob
Carl Sandburg
I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass.
Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes.
I am the audience that witnesses [...]

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My copy of John Tingey’s The Englishman Who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects finally arrived!  While I’m happy that the New Yorker’s book blog picked up on this mail art gem, it also meant the title was back-ordered for ages a few weeks.  Completely and utterly worth the wait.  I simply loved, loved, loved [...]

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It seems awfully early to start the calendar obsessing, I think I said something about holding off until November 1, but there are just too many good ones to keep quiet.  Herewith, links to just a few of the calendars that are catching my eye:

Pie Bird Press’ 2011 Seasonal Produce Calendar
Plasticouture’s Until 2044, steel working [...]

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Racing to the finish at the VA Beach Half Marathon

Oh how I came down with a cold this week.  Ever since we got back from San Francisco I’ve been feeling a bit off.  Friday (of course) it hit me hard.  I slept for about 19 hours on Saturday and another 17 on Sunday.  It was [...]

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It’s been a long time, I know… but let’s get back to a bit of poetry, shall we?

Meditation Over Prairie
John Casteen
If you don’t hear from me, everything’s fine.
In pressurized, recumbent air, trans-continental,
38,000 feet above the fruited plain, America
I bring you truer sustenance than food. Careful,
careful; everything here happens in the present tense.
The word forgetful has [...]

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Spent much of this week in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area.  We arrived Saturday afternoon, surprised a dear friend (he knew I was coming, but not that Jon would join me), and spent most of the next 36 hours drinking strong, west coast coffee, eating great Indian food, wandering, shopping for [...]

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“Hooray Hands 2011 Calendar” from Curiousdoodles via Etsy.
I’m on my way to San Francisco now, but I wanted to share this with you.  Just yesterday I came across what is sure to be a new favorite blog, Design Crush.  Seriously friends, why did you not tell me about this corner of the internet?  Of course, [...]

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“Everything in Iceland has a milky white quality to it” in Jeanine Caron’s Flickr Stream

Once again, I’ve been away much longer than I meant to.  Unfortunately, well happily for me as a human but not so much for me as a blogger, I’m going to remain busy.  I’m heading to San Francisco and Oakland this [...]

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Some great stamps have crossed my mailbox these last few weeks… The one above, celebrating public transit, is from Portugal.  I’ve actually gotten a few from Portugal…  They’re nice, especially the sea invertebrates.  Still, I like the art style in the stamp above best.

Technically, these stamps from Mexico aren’t really mine.  They arrived on an [...]

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Last weekend I saw a production of Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius put on by VA’s First Stage theater.  The play, with a plot described by the New York Times simply as “three thugs and a stamp collection,” centers around a woman who comes into a rather valuable stamp collection, a collector who wants that stamp, and [...]

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